"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"
"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."