Originality is only variation.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.