True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.