There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

—Christopher Morley

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

—Christopher Morley in Hide and Seek

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

—Christopher Morley

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

—Christopher Morley

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

—Christopher Morley in Where the Blue Begins

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

—Charles W. Eliot

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

—Charles De Secondat

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

—Bell Hooks

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

—Austin Phelps