“Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.”

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”

“The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.”

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”

“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.”