Have faith and pursue the unknown end. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it.

Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.