You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.