God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.