A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
Reward is its own virtue.
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.