There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social… - Christopher Morley

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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

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

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

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.