Fear is choosing the safe course

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night