The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.