A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.