How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.