To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?