"I love to lose myself in other men's minds"

"I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes."

"There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine."

"Dream not...of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad."

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading."

"Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?"

"Time partially reconciles us to anything."

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."

"Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence."