Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

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

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.