"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."

"You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid."

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."

"Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right."

"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."

"Woe to those who can't see the power of irrational logic."

"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action."

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

"Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."