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.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

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

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