When Friends Stop Being Frank And Useful

The Contents Of Someone's Bookcase Are Part Of His History, Like An Ancestral Portrait.

I Remember A Table In Barchestertowers That Had More Character Than The Combined Heroes Of Three Recent Novels I've Read.

When Friends Stop Being Frank And Useful To Each Other, The Whole World Loses Some Of Its Radiance.

There Was A Time When We Expected Nothing Of Our Children But Obedience, As Opposed To The Present, When We Expect Everything Of Them But Obedience.

The More I Like A Book, The More Reluctant I Am To Turn The Page. Lovers, Even Book Lovers, Tend To Cling. No One-night Stands Or "reads" For Them.