"I wish I could stop biting my nails."  From People Mirrors, Teacher's Guidebook by Allinson, Allinson & McInnes, 1974.

From Just Let Me Lie Down by Kristin Van Ogtrop.

From P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill, 1929.

"In books lies the soul of the whole past time. —Carlyle."  From Barnard College's 1922 yearbook.

From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

"From the sublime to the ridiculous."  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

Fancy hand lettering.  From Oberlin's 1905 yearbook.

"As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, so nobleness enkindleth nobleness" [James Russell Lowell].  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

"That's telling 'em!"  From The Film Daily, 1943.

"Break the news to mother."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.

We double-checked this Charles Kingsley quotation, and it is untrue.  (Yesterdays sneers and frowns certainly can come again!)  But we snagged it for the hand lettering.  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

"The pleasant books, that silently among our household treasures take familiar places, and are to us as if a living tongue spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces."

From East Carolina's 1930 yearbook.

"Whether great or small -- they leave us in bereavement."  From Mary Washington's 1920 yearbook.

Here's a recipe book written by someone whose name appropriately sounds like fireplace grates for heating pans.  One Hundred and Sixty Culinary Dainties for the Epicure, the Invalid and the Dyspeptic by Samuel Hobbs, 1885.  See Nostradamus Predicted Your Next Diet.

From The Apparition by Arthur Montagu Brookfield, 1884.

"Are things as good as they used to be?"  (In full disclosure, we reoriented the question mark.)  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

Answer: No.

"Among other things."  From Ambition magazine, 1911.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to toggle between two hand-letterings from the title pages of The Mysteries of Opium Reveal'd by John Jones, 1701.

"Rags and bones," from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1873.

"Strange ways of making a living."  From Popular Mechanics, 1925.  If you wish to know a very strange way of making a living, see what we've been up to, here.