Being a child is in itself a profession.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

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.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.