“Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.”

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.”

“I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.”

“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.”

“Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.”

“If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.”