I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else, - very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!"