Quote #12485
I mean your borrowers of books – those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the...
Quote #28445
We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole...
Quote #12356
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Quote #21012
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Quote #29214
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively...
Quote #7880
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest...
Quote #8843
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
Quote #7185
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Quote #29388
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several–from foolish vanity,...
Quote #20265
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over...