The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands read more

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

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.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he read more

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.