There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

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

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

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

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

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

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.