The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.