Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.