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Genius is initiative on fire.
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Your library is your portrait.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of... →
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.