Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.