Enthusiasm Is Essential To The Successful Attainment

Of Gifts, There Seems None More Becoming To Offer A Friend Than A Beautiful Book.

Sleep On Your Writing; Take A Walk Over It; Scrutinize It Of A Morning; Review It Of An Afternoon; Digest It After A Meal; Let It Sleep In Your Drawer A Twelvemonth; Never Venture A Whisper About It To Your Friend, If He Be An Author Especially.

A Sip Is The Most Than Mortals Are Permitted From Any Goblet Of Delight.

Like Birds Of Passage, The Instincts Drift The Soul Adventurously Beyond The Horizon Of Sensible Things, As If Intent On Convoying It To The Mother Country From Whence It Had Flown.

A Birthday Is A Good Time To Begin A New; Throwing Away The Old Habits, As You Would Old Clothes, And Never Putting Them Again.