Always do what you are afraid to do.
All diseases run into one, Old Age.
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts.
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair’s breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
A great man is always willing to be little.
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
‘T is the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
