“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.”

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”

“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big wh...”

“Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”