The Only Reason For Being Young Is

There Is No Reader So Parochial As The One Who Reads None But This Morning's Books. Books Are Not Rolls, To Be Devoured Only When They Are Hot And Fresh. A Good Book Retains Its Interior Heat And Will Warm A Generation Yet Unborn.

To Read In Bed Is To Draw Around Us Invisible, Noiseless Curtains. Then At Last We Are In A Room Of Our Own And Are Ready To Burrow Back, Back To That Private Life Of The Imagination We All Led As A Child And To Whose Secret Satisfactions So Many Of Us Have Mislaid The Key.

The Man Who Attracts Luck Carries With Him The Magnet Of Preparation.

The Drinking Of Wine Seems To Me To Have A Moral Edge Over Many Pleasures And Hobbies In That It Promotes Love Of One's Neighbor.

Books Act Like A Developing Fluid On Film. That Is, They Bring Into Consciousness What You Didn’t Know You Knew.