Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Love without conversation is impossible.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.