Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

What is life, but one long risk?