It's A Good Thing To Turn Your

The Real Purpose Of Books Is To Trap The Mind Into Doing Its Own Thinking.

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.

I Wish There Could Be An International Peace Conference Of Booksellers, For (you Will Smile At This) My Own Conviction Is That The Future Happiness Of The World Depends In No Small Measure On Them And On The Librarians.

Beware Of The Conversationalist Who Adds "in Other Words." He Is Merely Starting Afresh.

Life Is A Foreign Language; All Men Mispronounce It.