“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”

“There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”

“A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.”

“You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying”

“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”