Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.