“Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism”

“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”

“Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.”

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”

“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”

“To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.”