The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Books are embalmed minds.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.