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.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

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

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

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

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

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.