If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
So many books, so little time.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.