Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Each day is a little life.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!