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Letters We Never Send: The old practice of writing to settle the heart

The Quiet Virtues: Courtesy, punctuality, tidiness, and other unglamorous strengths

On Growing Old Without Growing Cold: Keeping warmth, wonder and usefulness in later years

The Evening Examination: An ancient nightly practice for an untroubled mind

Old Roads, Good Counsel: What proverbs still know about living well

A Day Well Divided: The old art of giving each hour its own work

The Uses of Solitude: What time alone gives that nothing else can

On Keeping One's Word: The quiet power of being someone people can count on

The Long Habit of Patience: Why the slowest virtue still wins

Words for Hard Days: A gathered anthology for grief, setback, and starting again

The Friendship Shelf: What thinkers from Aristotle to Emerson knew about friends

Courage in Small Doses: Stories of quiet bravery from history's margins

The Art of Enough: Voices across the ages on simplicity and contentment

On Growing Old Well: What the wisest voices said about the later years

The Stoic Pocketbook: Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus for ordinary mornings

Letters to a Young Friend: Counsel from history's great letter writers, gathered and retold

The Shortest Lessons: One hundred proverbs and the lives that proved them

Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations

Proverbial Philosophy

A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs

Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

Pearls of Thought

Maxims and Reflections

Proverbs and Their Lessons

The Art of English Poetry (1708)

An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams

"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus

Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida

The Proverbs of Scotland

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus

Life and Literature

Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic

Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book

Bushido, the Soul of Japan

What great men have said about women

Woman and Her Wits: Epigrams on Woman, Love, and Beauty

Proverb Lore

My Commonplace Book

From the heart of a friend

The Arnold Bennett Calendar

Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors

Familiar Quotations

Book of Wise Sayings

Ingersollia

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

The Triads of Ireland

Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated

The Dixie Book of Days

Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Desultory thoughts and reflections

The Book of the Courtier

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Anima Poetæ

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

A dictionary of English proverbs and proverbial phrases

A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies.

Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar