If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or asit were, fondle them — peer into them, let them fallopen where they will, read from the first sentence thatarrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your ownhands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do notknow what is in them, you at least know where they are. Letthem be your friends; let them at any rate be youracquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life,do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
Winston Churchill