"I seek occasional relief in old books. They help me tell the transient from the enduring."

"And then I began to feel it, the whole enormous scope of it, in what had begun in some dark antiquity of tr…"

"My dear reader, read aloud, if possible! If you do so, allow me to thank you for it: if you not only do it …"

"A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghost…"

"Whitman to me is the most fascinating of American poets. Whitman started to write the great poetry from scr…"

"A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and immedi…"

"When I left the University of Santo Tomas, I had but a smattering of Spanish. My friends made sport of me. …"