Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.