A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.