We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.