Reading to small children is a specialty.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.