Quotations

«The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.»

«She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.»

«Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself»

«The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.»

«I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.»

«Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.»

«Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.»

«No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.»

«Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.»

«Life is so unlike theory.»