He that has done nothing has known nothing.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

History is the distillation of rumour.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.