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!

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.