Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

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.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.