The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.