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.

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.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

The plural of spouse is spice.

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

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.