There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve
that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

Although he kept late hours, Roger Mifflin was a prompt riser. It is only the very young who find satisfaction in lying abed in the morning. Those who approach the term of the fifth decade are sensitively aware of the fluency of life, and have no taste to squander it among the blankets.