We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.