Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you ...

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I ...

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as wor ...

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross stree ...

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariab ...

When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a re ...

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if ...

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Circumstances alter faces.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

The wages of sin is alimony.

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.