Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!