Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.