Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.