He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.
We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.