Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
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.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Great books conserve time.
Be contented, when you have got all you want.
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.