Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.