Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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