A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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.
A living gale is better than a dead calm.
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.