It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

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.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

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.