A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

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.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library

Why is The Origin of Species such a great book? First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: it provides a vast and well-chosen body of evidence showing that existing animals and plants cannot have been separately created in their present forms, but must have evolved from earlier forms by slow transformation.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.