I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

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 cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.