The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.