I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.