One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

In every man there is something of all men.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

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.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.