The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.