The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.