The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.