Quotes by A. Edward Newton

“In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.”

“There are few finer or more innocent pleasures than talking books to one who knows. There may be joy in heaven- I am told there is- but the evidence is not conclusive, and I'll take mine here in my...”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the bea...”

“Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.”

“There may be little room for the display of this supreme qualification in the retail book business, but there is room for some. Be enterprising. Get good people about you. Make your shop windows an...”

“My depth of purse is not so greatNor yet my bibliophilic greed,That merely buying doth elate:The books I buy I like to read:Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,Beneath a cloudless summer sky,By bank...”

“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.”

“If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter o...”

“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.”

“If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only...”