London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

I’d follow you through the gates of hell.

A fool bolts pleasure then complains of indigestion.

That's important to me, to recommend books.

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me.

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.