We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.