A bad deed always brings a punishment.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.
If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose