“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”

“Books give not wisdom where was none before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”

“Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”

“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”

“He had given such heed to what was read that none of the things that were written fell from him to the ground, but he remembered all, and afterwards his memory served him for books.”

“When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.”

“There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven;”

“Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.”

“What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”