A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
