Meredith

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
― Ezra Pound

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien