"No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English." — Robertson Davies

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.