A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.