The covers of this book are too far apart.

Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I cannot live without books.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.