People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.