It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.