An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.