It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

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

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.