How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The plural of spouse is spice.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Truth can only be attained by those whose systems are untainted by secret influences, such as love, envy, ambition, food, college education and moonlight in spring.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The first rule to observe about rumors is that they are often exactly opposite in tendency to the coming fact.

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.