Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.