I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.