Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.