Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard-covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five-cent books are different.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Everywhere I have sought rest and found it not except sitting apart in a nook with a little book.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows-and I needn't.