Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

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

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.