“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.”

“Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.”

“Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.”

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”

“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”

“the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.”