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.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

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.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.