"This tale begins when Siddhartha, the beautiful son of a Brahman priest, finds that though he makes everyone else happy, he is not happy himself."

"The more I considered, the more the man seemed akin to the horse."

"One does not soon learn the trade of life. That one may work out a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work."

"Now I am alone — oh, how alone! The stars may behold my tears, and the winds drink my sighs; but my thoughts are a sealed treasure, which I can confide to none."

"Shakespeare makes the chief qualification of the walker a merry heart."

"A great source of the richness of personality which constitutes Horace's chief appeal lies in his contemplative disposition."

"The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught."

"A friend said, "Why do you go the same road every day ? Why not have a change and walk somewhere else sometimes ?"

"YOU WRITE to me, my dear sir, requesting advice at one of the most momentous epochs in a young man’s life."

"The design in most men is one of conformity; here and there, in picked natures, it transcends itself and soars on the other side..."

"Le temps est de toutes les propriétés celle qu’il faut le plus garantir contre l’invasion."

"The tempo of America is being taken as a norm to which life should be directed."

"The aim of the wise man was no longer the plaudits of the masses but autarkeia, or self-sufficiency."

"Altogether, it was rather like being in a somewhat spartan study centre - or perhaps even more like being in a monastery."

"The pleasure of reading is, Petrarch feels, more intimate and more intense than the satisfaction afforded by other worldly goods."

In a manner of speaking, boredom is your window on time. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

"There is nothing in which people differ more than in their powers of observation."

"Falls and cascades are a great feature all through this country, as they are a marked feature in Wordsworth's poetry."

"It must always be remembered that the isolation of the self, in a deliberately lonely life, need not imply living in actual solitude."

"I have been forcibly struck with what may be called solitude in the lives of these great men."

"It is a mistake to regard his scepticism as merely negative. Like all wise scepticism it is creative and constructive."

"Cerebrotonia communes with itself, and is mentally self-sufficient. It seems to live a mentally intensive (rather than extensive) life."

"I have never succeeded in becoming completely used to existence..."

"Hamlet's knowledge and his desire for knowledge set him apart from the world. In it, he cannot be of it. He acts the part of a madman."