A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.