"If books are not good company, where..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.”

“The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.”

“College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.”

“I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.”

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”

“Tolle, lege: take up and read.”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.”