When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life. -Christopher Morley - Christopher Morley

I think any man would be a traitor to humanity who didn’t pledge every effort of his waking life to an attempt to make war impossible in future.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

"None of the neighbouring ladies would stand as godmother, for they were secretly dubious as to the children's origin; so he had asked good Mrs. Spaniel to act in that capacity. She, a simple kindly creature, was much flattered, though certainly she can have understood very little of the symbolical rite. Gissing, filling out the form that Mr. Poodle had given him, had put down the names of an entirely imaginary brother and sister-in-law of his, "deceased," whom he asserted as the parents."