Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

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.

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

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

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.

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.