A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

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.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.