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

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

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

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

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