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.

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.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

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