“I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.”
“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.”
“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”
“I learn more from books than from people”
“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”
“There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.”