Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.