Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.