Source: Spin (2005), p. 261
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Dedication 'You and I' Macmillan, New York October 1914
Other Quotes
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
Of Reading.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
Source: Tablets
Jean Anouilh as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010) News Culture. p. 1
“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable
( from 'the luck of the word' )”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“It was a rude, brutal and purposely ugly book. However, it was an honest book.”
Recordações do Escrivão Isaias Caminha (1909)
Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There are very few honest friends—the demand is not particularly great.”
Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 71.
