When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

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

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

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.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

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.