Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.