The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses