The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them