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

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.

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!

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

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

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

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.