To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

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

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

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

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.