 A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. |
| A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. |
| Of two evils choose the prettier. |
| Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. |
| Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. |
| A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. |
| It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. |
| 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day! Topics: Christmas |
| I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. |
