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.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.