Wine Is A Civilizing Agent.

A Good Memory Is One Trained To Forget The Trivial.

Socrates Called Himself A Midwife Of Ideas. A Great Book Is Often Such A Midwife, Delivering To Full Existence What Has Been Coiled Like An Embryo In The Dark, Silent Depths Of The Brain.

Reading Is Not An Operation Performed On Something Inert But A Relationship Entered Into With Another Vital Being.

My Main Recollection Is Of The Work I Had To Do In Order To Eat

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.