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.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

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

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?