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

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.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

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

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

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.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.