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

“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.”

“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”

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

“There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.”

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