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

The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.

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

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.