Classic - a book which people praise and don't read. Mark Twain
Classic - a book which people praise and don't read.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.