God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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

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.