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

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 surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

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 met.

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