A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.