In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Ambition never comes to an end.

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.