A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

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

Genius is intuition on fire.

Great books conserve time.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.