let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.