May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all.

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.