The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

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.