The final result of too much routine is death in life.
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.