“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

I have an appetite for silence.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The Soul selects her own Society.

But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Who says Television isn’t educational, as soon as the T.V. comes on I read a book.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.