Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

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

Be contented, when you have got all you want.

Great books conserve time.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.