Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
I mean your borrowers of books – those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
I cannot live without books.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.