Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lec…

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.