Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.