Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

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

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

Let my temptation be a book.

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

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.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.