Then I though of reading — the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, … - Logan Pearsall Smith

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

We frequently fall into error and folly, Dr. Johnson tells us, “not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered.” To compress, therefore, the great and obvious rules of life into brief sentences which are not easily forgotten is, as he said, to confer a real benefit upon us.