There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.