Laughter means sympathy.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.