The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.