"I replace Hergesheimer's book and feel again the immensity of my little business – how it makes its master willy-nill…"

"A fair exchange is so difficult to understand. How much do these inscrutable customers of mine desire my books? What …"

"My arrangement of my shelves may earn me a reputation for untidiness among the unthinking, but I am indifferent to th…"

"I am an unrepentant book lover, and so soaked am I in the love of books that I feel – poor twentieth-century shopkeep…"

"A cat is the ideal literary companion. A wife, I am sure, cannot compare except to her disadvantage. A dog is out of …"

"A wicked generation seeketh ever some new thing and the publishers must publish and the bookseller must book-sell in …"

"That frivolous young widow ought to have paid for the solace she declared so often she found in books. "I must read t…"

"The world is so full of wonderful things that at this stage in its history there would seem to be no justification fo…"

"War is not horrible all the time, as pacifists seem to believe. There are compensations for everything, and there is …"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"