It has always appeared to me that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account… - Arthur Helps

How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.

The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.

A very useful book might be written with the sole object of advising what parts of what books should be read. It should not be a book of elegant extracts, but should merely refer to the passages which are advised to be read. It might also indicate what are the chief works upon any given subject. For example, take rent; the important passages in Adam Smith, Ricardo, Jones, Mill, and other writers, should be referred to.