If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.