It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.