How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.