“Books are the most tolerant of friends.”

“I have known books written on Tolerance, the proper title of which would be — intolerant or intolerable books on tolerance. Should not a man who writes a book expressly to inculcate tolerance learn to treat with respect, or at least with indulgence, articles of faith which tens of thousands ten times told of his fellow-subjects or his fellow-creatures believe with all their souls, and upon the truth of which they rest their tranquillity in this world, and their hopes of salvation in the next, — those articles being at least maintainable against his arguments, and most certainly innocent in themselves?”

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

“Fire is the most tolerable third party.”

“The best known evil is the most tolerable.”
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?”

“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”