Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future 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 misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

All students can learn.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.