There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, – and that is a book honestly come by.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Whatever else you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
