Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

The history of art is the history of revivals.