"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
"Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure"
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."