Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.