Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil..

Invitation is the sincerest flattery..

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye..

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present..

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder..

Circumstances alter faces..

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering..

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker..

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquain….

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins..

Of two evils choose the prettier..

The wages of sin is alimony..

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live..

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and ….

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention..

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself.

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with….

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't..

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination..

The way to do some things is to do them..

Every dogma must have its day..