“There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.”

“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. ”

“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”

“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. ”

“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it”

“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”

“Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.”