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

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

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

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

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