I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

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.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Actions lie louder than words.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!