Christopher Morley

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.