Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.