Bachelors' Wives And Old Maids' Children Are

Spero Speroni Explains Admirably How An Author Who Writes Very Clearly For Himself Is Often Obscure To His Readers. "it Is," He Says, "because The Author Proceeds From The Thought To The Expression, And The Reader From The Expression To The Thought.

Most Books Today Seemed To Have Been Written Overnight From Books Read The Day Before.

Calumny Is Like The Wasp Which Worries You, And Which It Is Not Best To Try To Get Rid Of Unless You Are Sure Of Slaying It; For Otherwise It Returns To The Charge More Furious Than Ever.

Someone Has Said That To Plagiarise From The Ancients Is To Play The Pirate Beyond The Equator, But That To Steal From The Moderns Is To Pick Pockets At Street Corners.

Wrinkles And Ill-nature Together Made A Woman Hideous.