If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.