No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.