If you love a person in the real sense, you want them to be happy, not take them like butter and spread them thinly over your own bread, to make it more palatable for yourself.

It’s a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.