Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.