A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.