The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.