One must be an inventor to read well.
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
It is with a good book as it is with good company.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.