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

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

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

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

“I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.”

“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.”