Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

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

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.

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

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?