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.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

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

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.