Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

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.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

In every man there is something of all men.