The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

A man's best friend is a good wife.

Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.