Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.