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

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.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

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

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.