A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

All books grow homilies by time; they are
Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

All books grow homilies by time; they are
Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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

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

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

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.