Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial faith. The argument founded on this occasional good would be as applicable in justifying the counterfeiter and giving circulation to his base coin, on the ground that a spurious dollar had often relieved a poor man's necessities.

What a miserable thing it is to be poor.