A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.