Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.