There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.