Forgive everybody but yourself.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

Your library is your portrait.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.