"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!"
"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades"
"...they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight of any thought for the future."
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."