A scholar knows no boredom.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.