We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.