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.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
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.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
