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

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

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.