What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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