The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.