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.

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.

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

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

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

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

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.