Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.