Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.