Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

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.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

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

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.