An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?