A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.