I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.