"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."

"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter."

"Never judge a book by its movie."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."

"Learn as much by writing as by reading."

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."