People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions..

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence..

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we exp….

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes..

But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one kee….

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction..

What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last si….

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols..

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event..

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without….

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die..

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people..

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain..