It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

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

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.