Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.