Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.