You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

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.

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

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves