The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

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

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.