A book should be luminous not voluminous.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.