His only fault is that he has no fault.
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
Home is where the heart is.
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
Nulla dies sine linea – Not a day without a line.
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.