"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"It is better to live rich than to die rich."

"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts."

"Don't fear change, embrace it."

"Wife: a former sweetheart."

"I dwell in possibility..."

"Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary."

"The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being."