Quotes by A. Edward Newton

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

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 souls reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish? Whoever it was, I agree with him.

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 and your shops attractive. The fact that so many young men and women enter the teaching profession shows that there are still some people willing to scrape along on comparatively little money for the pleasure of following an occupation in which they delight. It is as true to-day as it was in Chaucers time that there is a class of men who gladly learn and gladly teach, and our college trustees and overseers and rich alumni take advantage of this and expect them to live on wages which an expert chauffeur would regard as insufficient. Any bookshop worthy of survival can offer inducements at least as great as the average school or college. Under pleasant conditions you will meet pleasant people, for the most part, whom you can teach and form whom you may learn something.

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 een when dawdling in a mead,Beneath a cloudless summer sky,By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,The books I read — I like to buy.

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 Ill take mine here in my library.

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

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 after their cost has been carefully considered.

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