He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.