The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

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

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.