The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.