From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.