Books wind into the heart.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.