Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Society is in decay, final or transitional when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it, you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.