The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Wise men are not wise at all times.