The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

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

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.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

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