Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

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

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.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.