
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Teacher, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
"Letter of 1607", as cited by Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 2012, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, p. 218.
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”
Response to a would be biographer in 1980, as quoted in "When Stephen met Sylvia" in The Guardian (24 April 2004) http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1201328,00.html
Context: I am very honoured by your wanting to write a life of me. But the fact is I regard my life as rather a failure in the only thing in which I wanted it to succeed. I have not written the books I ought to have written and I have written a lot of books I should not have written. My life as lived by me has been interesting to me but to write truthfully about it would probably cause much pain to people close to me — and I always feel that the feelings of the living are more important than the monuments of the dead.
As quoted in Novelists in Interview (1985) edited by John Haffenden
“I guess I should have written two books of my life, one for the adults and another for the kids.”
Speaking shortly before his death, as quoted in "Sports of the Times: Down Memory Lane with the Babe" by Arthur Daley, The New York Times ((August 18, 1948), p. 32
Source: Slammerkin