A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.