The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.