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

- A. Edward Newton

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

- A. Edward Newton

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…

- A. Edward Newton

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…

- A. Edward Newton

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…

- A. Edward Newton

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…

- A. Edward Newton

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

- A. Edward Newton

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…

- A. Edward Newton