The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.