When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.