Be contented, when you have got all you want.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

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

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

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

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.