Wine is poetry in a bottle.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.