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!

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

The plural of spouse is spice.

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

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.