“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”

“The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.”

“The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.”

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”

“After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”

“Beware of the man of one book.”

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”

“As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.”

“On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).”