Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.