Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

Books fall open, you fall in.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

I don't care what you think of Michael Vick - whether you think he's being mistreated or misused, or just think he's not that good, whatever. He can play for my team any day

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

You keep playing, you get a lead and build on it. People get mad when you keep playing, but that's part of the game, too.