Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

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 guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

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