A college joke to cure the dumps.

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.