"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"What a nice night for an evening"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"