There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Reading means borrowing.