There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

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?

It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there you jolly well are, aren't you?

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.