In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.