Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.