A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer
Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot