We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
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.
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
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.