The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very great steps in its direction and now discover we are still very far away from it. With the most rational philosophers an increase in their knowledge is always attended by an increased conviction of their ignorance.

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.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.