Sam

“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”
― Archibald MacLeish

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“A book in hand is worth ten on the shelf”
― Anonymous