The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and read more

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

The book you don't read can't help

The book you don't read can't help

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you read more

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

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

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