A book worth reading is worth buying.

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

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