Quotes on “nonfiction”

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do."