Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.