A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Originality is only variation.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.