"I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had b…"

"So essential did I consider an index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into Parliament to deprive …"

"The index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapters."

"How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail."

"That roars so loud and thunders in the index."

"And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant ma…"

"Never index your own book."

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"