Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.