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

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

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

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

The plural of spouse is spice.