To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.