Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.