I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

The sharp employ the sharp.

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.

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

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

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