“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”

“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.”