When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers