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

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.