“Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it.”

“6472. Nothing more smooth than Glass, yet nothing more brittle;
Nothing more fine than Wit, yet nothing more fickle.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”

“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”

“In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.”

“I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. … They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.”

“Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.”

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”