Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.
There is no end to the deceits of the past.
things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.