In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.