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.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

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

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

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 the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.