“In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.”

“As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.”

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

“Everything was as it always should have been. I was in the arms of my best friend, the man I loved and the man I would spend the rest of my life with. It just didn’t get any better than that.”