I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.