Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.