It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.