Carolyn Wells

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. ”

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ”

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. ”

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. ”