A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
I cannot live without books.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.