Man should think like few do and talk like the many others

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Life is a ticklish business I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it

The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it

Human life must be some form of mistake

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world