Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.