Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.

We do choose how we shall live

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.