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.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.