The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.