A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
— Holbrook Jackson
Genius is initiative on fire.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
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 day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
Your library is your portrait.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
