Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.