To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.- Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
