There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of al…

Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to dr…

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how man…

I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the wor…