Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.