Who said “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”?

“I cannot live without books.”

“No furniture so charming as books.”

“To read too many books is harmful.”

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”

“Never read any book that is not a year old.”

“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”

“Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.”

“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”

“What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?”

“I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”

“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!”