Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.