Reading, To Most People, Means An Ashamed

The History Of The Past Interests Us Only In So Far As It Illuminates The History Of The Present.

Whatever We Read From Intense Curiosity Gives Us A Model Of How We Should Always Read.

A Book, Like A Landscape, Is A State Of Consciousness Varying With Readers.

The Happiness Of Most People Is Not Ruined By Great Catastrophes Or Fatal Errors, But By The Repetition Of Slowly Destructive Little Things.

Life Is A Succession Of Lessons Enforced By Immediate Reward, Or, Oftener, By Immediate Chastisement.