Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.