Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

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

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.