There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.