The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads... - Christopher Morley

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

"There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way."

"When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book."

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."