You know, a woman only falls in love once in her life, and if it waits until she's darn near forty — well, it takes! - Christopher Morley

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

I think any man would be a traitor to humanity who didn’t pledge every effort of his waking life to an attempt to make war impossible in future.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night — there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.