Let there be truth between us.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.