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

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

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

Forgive everybody but yourself.

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

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.