It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.