Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.