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

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

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.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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!