Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
A living gale is better than a dead calm.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.