The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.