To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.