“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

“Read two old books for every new one.”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.”

“May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!”

“There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.”