As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.