There Is An Innate Decorum In Man,

There Is An Innate Decorum In Man, And It Is Not Fair To Thrust Truth Upon People When They Don't Expect It. Only The Very Generous Are Ready For Truth Impromptu.

There Is No Mistaking A Real Book When One Meets It. It Is Like Falling In Love.

What Is The Virtue And Service Of A Book? Only To Help Me Live Less Gingerly And Shabbily.

Friendships Do Not Grow Up In Any Carefully Tended And Contemplated Fashion.... They Begin Haphazard.

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.