There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.