The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
From William Dean Howells
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
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