"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
— Evelyn Waugh

"I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."
— Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)