They belonged to that very small class of persons who still read, who have mind and leisure to find companionship in books.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
