A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.