No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.