In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity