Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

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.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

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.