Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.