“You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.”

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

“If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.”

“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”

“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”

“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds. ”

“The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.”