Books Serve To Show A Man That Those Original

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.