“The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.”

Advocating mental freshness as the key to vitality in later life · The Village Comedy

• Age
• Mind
• Vitality

“Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.”

A dry comment on the self-defeating anxiety of the health-obsessed · The Village Comedy

• Anxiety
• Health
• Time

“War in fact is becoming contemptible, and ought to be put down by the great nations of Europe, just as we put down a vulgar mob.”

A sceptical dismissal of organised violence as unworthy of civilised states · Thoughts in my Garden

• Civilization
• Scepticism
• War