Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
There is no end to the deceits of the past.
Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.