Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.