I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.