Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.