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

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

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!

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

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

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.