Too much is unwholesome.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.