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

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

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.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.