If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

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

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.