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

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.

I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men

We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.