I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.