“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party
“My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam
“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams
“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again