Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Man shows his character best in trifles.