5 Quotes by Leonard Holton

Young sir,” he said, “you speak like an expert. And an expert, I can assure you, from a long association with them, is someone who has gone to considerable pains to be absolutely wrong.

The normal man is the support of his whole community. He doesn't get into trouble, pays his bills, helps to get the roads paved and the street lighting improved, and the school bonds passed. That's the proper way to spend a life.

Facts are delusion," he said. "They are a delusion of truth as a mirage is a delusion of sight. The real facts lie in people's minds and not in fingerprints and books and photographs and all the other physical things which are only the accidents that occur as a result of what lies in the mind. Truth is a matter of the mind and all else is only a blurred shadow to reconstruct the original image. Bit it is the image we are searching for.

Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite.” (Senator)

He could judge with reasonable accuracy the amount of use a book had had. The first item to show any sign of wear was the dust jacket at the top and bottom of the spine. Little tears or cracks in the paper appeared here if a book had been taken off a shelf as much as three or four times.