A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed
with profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed
with profit.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Never judge a book by its movie.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine read more

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book.