If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.