There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. - Christopher Morley

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

"It's spring," Mike said. "Oh, yes, of course, jolly old spring!" said Gissing, as though this was something he had known all along, and had just forgotten for the moment. But he didn't know. This was his first spring, for he was only ten months old.