Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

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