Jon

“And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they are the open highway to yesterday, today and tomorrow wherever you will to travel.”
― Gladys Taber, Stillmeadow Daybook

“Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.

“the fact of a leading organ of Evangelical thought being edited for two successive fortnights from Trouville and Monte Carlo was generally admitted to have been a mistake. ”
― Saki, The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories

“The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.”
― Saki