The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

One may quote till one compiles.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air.

A love where no one gets hurt doesn't exist.

That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

Anyone who can not write should.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.