The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind. - F. H. Bradley

“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.