Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book. - Christopher Morley

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

You know at once, if you are clairvoyant in these matters (libre-voyant, one might say), when you have met your book. You may dally and evade, you may go on about your affairs, but the paragraph of prose your eye fell upon, or the snatch of verses, or perhaps only the spirit and flavour of the volume, more divined than reasonably noted, will follow you.