Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.