If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.