“Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”
“He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.Yeah, that was the life.”
“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”
“Life is noisy. Reading is quiet time for the soul.”
“(This is not a digression.)”
“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”