Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.