If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.