Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.