It grows—it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can’t reach old age by another man’s road.

IF BOOKS ARE NOT GOOD COMPANY, WHERE WILL I FIND IT?

I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, january, September, April, November, May, March, june, December, August and February.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.