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 throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

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 success, or discontinued.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

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.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

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