Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

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