Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.