Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.