Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.