Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.