It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

Justice satisfies everybody.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.