After my experiences I know that it is not the disposal of books that presents the greatest difficulty to a bookseller, but the acquisition of them. - E. V. Lucas

What can become of book-hunting...if everything is reprinted in uniform binding for a shilling or sixpence?

I never need to see any one twice to know them. My first impressions are always right. Sometimes I go back on my first impressions, but it is always a mistake to do so.

It is all to the good that insignificant-looking persons should do great things, but human nature will ever resent it. We are such determined idealists, we have such a passion for symmetry, that our first wish will always be that handsome does and handsome is shall be one.