The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” —

Common sense is very uncommon.

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.