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.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

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.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

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

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.