The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well..

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the ….

This world is a comedy, not Life..

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus la….

When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him al….

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other..

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery..

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove….

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it..

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palm….

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon..

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

It is charming to totter into vogue..

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due..

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage..

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his..

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of….

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony..

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing..

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel..

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly wome….