America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

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!

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.