A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.