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

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

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.

All students can learn.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.