The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

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

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

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.