“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”

“The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.”

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death”

“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.”

“Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.”

“Anyone who wishes to learn to enjoy life must find friends of the same type of temperament, and take as much trouble to gain and keep their friendship as wives take to keep their husbands.”