Newspapers are the second hand of history.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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