A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.