The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.