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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
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In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
