The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.