Ideas are the root of creation.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.