You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long e... - C.S. Lewis

"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."