E. W. Howe Book Quotations

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.