Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

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.

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