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.
Happiness is a form of courage.
Great books conserve time.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
Be contented, when you have got all you want.
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.