Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder—from before my shelves of books!...

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious