"I would rather be a wood-chopper than a professor of ethics."

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplici…"

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give him the news as if t…"