The Pocket University - Volume XXIII

“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times.Most likely you will carry it many a day and never give it a singlelook, but, even so, a book in the hand is always a companionablereminder of that happier world of fancy, which, alas! most of us canonly visit by playing truant from the real world. As some men wearboutonnieres, so a reader carries a book, and sometimes, when heis feeling the need of beauty, or the solace of a friend, he opens it,and finds both.”