Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous