A True Friend Is One Who Likes

As A Rule People Don't Collect Books; They Let Books Collect Themselves.

If You Imagine That You Will Be Able To Achieve Your Ideal By Ingeniously Planning Out A Timetable With A Pen On A Piece Of Paper, You Had Better Give Up Hope At Once.if You Are Not Prepared For Discouragements And Disillusions; If You Will Not Be Content With A Small Result For A Big Effort, Then Do Not Begin. Lie Down Again And Resume The Uneasy Doze Which You Call Your Existence.

Great Wealth May Be To Its Owner A Blessing Or A Curse. Alas! I Fear It Is Too Often The Latter. It Hardens The Heart, Blunts The Finer Susceptibilities, And Transforms Into A Fiend What Under More Favourable Circumstances Might Have Been A Human Being.

The Only Way To Write A Great Book Is To Write It With The Eyes Of A Child Who Sees Things For The First Time.

It Is Easier To Go Down A Hill Than Up, But The View Is From The Top.