“A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.”

“A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.”

“Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him. ”

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ”

“Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.”

“a conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that 'ancient institution,' the old one”

“This is my book, and in my book my soulWith its two woven threads of joy and pain,And both were yours before they were begun..”