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

“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.”

“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

“With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.”

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

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

“Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.”