The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.