It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.