The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

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

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.

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

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

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