A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Carolyn Wells

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
Carolyn Wells

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells

Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells

'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!
Carolyn Wells

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
Carolyn Wells