I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

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

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!