When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. Parnassus on Wheels (1955)

More from Christopher Morley

• The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
• There is only one success… to be able to spend your life in your own way.
• There is only one success'to be able to spend your life in your own way.
• When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue'you sell him a whole new life.