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.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

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

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.