The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its... - Christopher Morley
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."
"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."
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."