People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.