Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.