A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
Every reform was once a private opinion.