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.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those 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

Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.