Back in 1906, British publisher J.M. Dent began a line of classic book edition he called Everyman's library. He got the name from the anonymous mystery play from the Middle Ages of the same name, and these lines from the play appeared in every edition: "Everyman, let me go with thee and be thy guide,/In thy most need to go by thy side." Their logo was a barefoot pilgrim. Recently, Knopf publishers (known for their symbol, the Russian borzoi) resurrected the Everyman imprint and now publish classic books from "Ulysses" to "Catch-22" And all have those famous lines in them. tjoeb};>

The original series also used to have a suitable quotation on the page opposite the title-page. The only early Everyman that I can find on my shelves is a volume of Percy's Reliques, which has "Poets are the trumpets which sing to battle ... poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Shelley)". If I remember correctly, prose works often had Milton's "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life".