Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.