“I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.”

“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.”

“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”

“It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.”

“a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”

“If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.”