...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.