He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.