Conversations and jokes together$$$ mutual rendering of good services$$$ the reading together of sweetly phrased books$$$ the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.

To kill an error is as good a service as$$$ and sometimes even better than$$$ the establishing of a new truth or fact.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

On the whole$$$ we treat the Devil shamefully$$$ and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

In conclusion$$$ it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist$$$ than a journey in distant countries.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

God$$$ youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!

How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually$$$ then suddenly.

Faith is the great cop-out$$$ the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of$$$ even perhaps because of$$$ the lack of evidence.

If I had my life to live over again$$$ I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.