Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his
roof.--_Channing._
Wise books for half the truths they hold are honored tombs.--_George
Eliot._
~Bores.~--I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. A carpenter's
hammer, in a warm summer's noon, will fret me into more than midsummer
madness. But those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured
malice of music.--_Lamb._
These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid
men.--_Dryden._
If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set
open our gates to the invaders of most of our time; we expose our life
to a quotidian ague of frigid impertinences which would make a wise man
tremble to think of.--_Cowley._
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like
those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril!--_Madame
Swetchine._
~Borrowing.~--You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but
few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they
are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really
are.--_Heinrich Heine._
According to the security you offer to her, Fortune makes her loans easy
or ruinous.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Bravery.~--True bravery is shown by performing without witnesses what one
might be capable of doing before all the world.--_Rochefoucauld._
'Tis late before the brave despair.--_Thompson._