Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the b...
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What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the w...
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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the s...
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...
