"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would ..." — Arthur Schopenhauer

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.