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

Reading means borrowing.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

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.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.