“I have a suicide impulse.”

“There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.”

“Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.”

“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”

“Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.”

“What is more useless than the popular novel that has passed its boom!”

“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. ”