And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.