Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
Not if I know myself at all.
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.