The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.