There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

We are all citizens of history.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.