Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.