I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

It is good to have friends at court.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.