One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.