For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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.

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.