Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice . . .

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.