Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.
Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.
[Science is] the literature of truth.
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.