The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.
Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.
In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.
