Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. The follies of youth have a basis in sound reason, just as much …

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing…

A real book reads us. I have been read by Eliot's poems and by Ulysses and by Remembrance of Things Past and by The Castle for a good many years now, since ear…

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.