I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

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

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

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?

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

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.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.