The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.