Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.