"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have ke…"

"Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."

"Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort."

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a cl…"

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"I am in the habit," replied the Prince, "of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it …"

"In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should…"

"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life."

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

"In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy."