Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it