I Am The Batsman And

A Book Is A Friend Whose Face Is Constantly Changing. If You Read It When You Are Recovering From An Illness, And Return To It Years After, It Is Changed Surely, With The Change In Yourself.

You Can Cover A Great Deal Of Country In Books.

There's A Joy Without Canker Or Cark, There's A Pleasure Eternally New, 't Is To Gloat On The Glaze And The Mark Of China That's Ancient And Blue.

. . . Had I A River I Would Gladly Let All Honest Anglers That Use The Fly Cast Line In It, But, But Where There Is No Protection, Then Nets, Poison, Dynamite, Slaughter Of Fingerlings, And Unholy Baits Devastate The Fish, So That 'free Fishing' Spells No Fishing At All.

Young Men, Especially In America, Write To Me And Ask Me To Recommend “a Course Of Reading.” Distrust A Course Of Reading! People Who Really Care For Books Read All Of Them. There Is No Other Course.