The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.