He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
—Silas Weir Mitchell
Topics: Friendship
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
—Silas Weir Mitchell
Topics: Reading, Books
It’s easier traveling the road of life when I don’t have so much to carry on my back.
—Silas Weir Mitchell
Topics: Worry
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s check-books.
—Silas Weir Mitchell
Topics: Biography, Legacy
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