"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"You can make anything by writing."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."