"Lord!" he said, "when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sel…"

"It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other …"

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because…"

"The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors …"

"Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food."

"We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expres…"

"My theology, briefly, Is that the Universe Was Dictated But not Signed."

"Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment."

""Poetry," said Shelley, "lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they…"

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."