Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.