Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

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.

Society's the mother of convention.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

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.