"No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken."
- Walter Savage Landor
"What is reading but silent conversation."
"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws."
"The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressu..."
"When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness."
"Cats ask plainly for what they want."
"Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library."
"There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it."
"We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could."
"What is reading but silent conversation?"