"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
— Edith Wharton