"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

"Years teach us more than books"