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

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.