The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- James Goldsmith, (Feb 26 1933-1997), French financier; His reputation as a corporate raider and various business deals resulted in a net work of several billion dollars.