The Useless Digest A Free Weekly dose of Facts, Quotes, History and more - direct to your inbox. A trifle consoles us because a trifle distresses us.
Curiosity is only in vanity.
Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.