... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

One place is very like another.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'