Read much but not many books.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.