I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

All truth is profound.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.