No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.