For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.