In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.