“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”