The better the book the more room for the reader.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

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.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Genius is intuition on fire.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.