The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Genius is initiative on fire.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.