If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.