“No furniture is so charming as books.”
“Live always in the best company when you read.”
“To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.”
“Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.”
“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”
“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”
“A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.”
“Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.”
“Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.”
“Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.”
“I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.”
“No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.”
“Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.”
“He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.”
“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
“It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.”
“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
“The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
“Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.”
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
“A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.”
“Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.”
“How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is ''I will see you in the vestry after service.''”
“Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.”
“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”
“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”
“Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.”
“Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.”
“Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.”