Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the troub…

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. The follies of youth have a basis in sound reason, just as much …

I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.

Two hands upon the breast, And labour's done; Two pale feet crossed in rest, The race is won.

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and out of my observation that most m…