Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

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

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.