Christopher Morley

Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

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

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.