Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.