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 co….

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more boo….

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 dawdl….

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very….

Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; whic….

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity..

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter..

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books..