I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.