Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

God is the fountain of all living waters.

Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all.

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

Find the right paths for your journey. Travel along these paths to your final destination.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.