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

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.