The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.