Only your friends steal your books

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the prope

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil