Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

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

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.