It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,-and that is a book honestly come by.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.