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.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

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

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

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.