Of two evils choose the prettier.

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

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

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.

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

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 adviser receives all the blame.

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