The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
The plural of spouse is spice.
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.
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.
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
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