Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.