“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.