The worst old age is that of the mind.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.