He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.