Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories