To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

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.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.