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

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

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

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.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.