"Some books seem to have been written,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”

“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.”

“We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.”

“You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.”

“People who read are people who dream.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter”

“Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.”

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”