All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.