Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.