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

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

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

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

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.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.