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

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.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

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

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

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

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.