The End Of Reading Is Not More

History Proves There Is No Better Advertisement For A Book Than To Condemn It For Obscenity.

Pedantry Is The Dotage Of Knowledge.

The Poor Are The Only Consistent Altruists; They Sell All They Have And Give It To The Rich.

The Time To Read Is Any Time: No Apparatus, No Appointment Of Time And Place, Is Necessary.

A Large, Still Book Is A Piece Of Quietness, Succulent And Nourishing In A Noisy World, Which I Approach And Imbibe With "a Sort Of Greedy Enjoyment," As Marcel Proust Said Of Those Rooms Of His Old Home Whose Air Was "saturated With The Bouquet Of Silence."