“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

“Too young for wife, too old for child, but the ripe age for comrade — and such a comrade, for there was a boy's gallantry in her eyes and something of a child's confident fearlessness.”

“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.”

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“The law and the constitution are like a child's pants. They've got to be made wider and longer as the child grows so as to fit him. If they're kept too tight, he'll burst them; and if you're in a hurry and make them too big all at once, they'll trip him up.”

“The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.”

“Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.”