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“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
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“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.”
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“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
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“There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.”
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“Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.”
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“Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.”
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