"Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth cent..." — Robertson Davies

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

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.