Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.