There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.