Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.