Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

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.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

All students can learn.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.