“What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.”

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”

“About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.”

“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.”

“A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.”

“If you go to church and like the singing better than the preaching that's not orthodox.”

“When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, whi...”

“I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.”

“There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because h...”

“If you lend you either lose the money or gain an enemy.”

“Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.”

“A good man showeth favor and lendeth.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”