If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,-and that is a book honestly come by.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on…

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.