I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.