Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.