What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.