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

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

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.