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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.”