Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'