Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!