The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.