In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident

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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather

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The rich man . . . is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment

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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described

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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point

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However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned

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Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure

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