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

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.