When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.