Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.