We Are All Citizens Of History.

Reading Is Not An Operation Performed On Something Inert But A Relationship Entered Into With Another Vital Being.

Reading To Small Children Is A Specialty.

There Is No Reader So Parochial As The One Who Reads None But This Morning's Books. Books Are Not Rolls, To Be Devoured Only When They Are Hot And Fresh. A Good Book Retains Its Interior Heat And Will Warm A Generation Yet Unborn.

Socrates Called Himself A Midwife Of Ideas. A Great Book Is Often Such A Midwife, Delivering To Full Existence What Has Been Coiled Like An Embryo In The Dark, Silent Depths Of The Brain.

A Man Who Is Careful With His Palate Is Not Likely To Be Careless With His Paragraphs.