Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

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.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.