Only the sinner has the right to preach.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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.