I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit"―

But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself

“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. ”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

Books are a load of crap

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

“You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“Good English’ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.