'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!.

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could ….

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life..

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with succ….

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk a….

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive..

All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be m….

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the sh….

Happiness is the ability to recognize it..

Society's the mother of convention..

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the sure….

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remai….

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of thes….

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time..

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few..

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the advise….

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke..

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature..

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!.

A profit is not without honor save in Boston..

A fool and his money are soon married..