...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

Passion makes every detail important.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Atheism is too theological.

Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.