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

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

“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.”

“But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides,' she said. 'It 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”

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