I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.