The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

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

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.