When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.