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

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

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.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.