There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.