What a blessing it is to love books.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

What a blessing it is to love books.