Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.