“What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?”

“...The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?...”

“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…”

“She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when". ”

“The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their day, were listed as the indispensable ones. In many cases, they read fewer books than are now required in most of our colleges, but what they did read, they read well. Because they had mastered these books, they became peers with their authors. They were entitled to become authorities in their own right. In the natural course of events, a good student frequently becomes a teacher, and so, too, a good reader becomes an author.”

“Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured”