If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

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

Men still have to be governed by deception.

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