A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
