There is no dunce like a mature dunce

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.