72 Quotes by Carolyn Wells

The way to do some things is to do them.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!