Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or reading:
“Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.”
—Lever Leslie, Baron (19051977)
“The two great things yet to be discovered are theseThe Art of rejuvenating old age in men, & oldageifying youth in books.Who in the name of the trunk-makers would think of reading Old Burton were his book published for the first to day.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)