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 "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.