It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.