"He never went out without a book..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”

“A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.”

“A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.”

“I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.”

“Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text”

“We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.”

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

“A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.”