In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.