There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.