In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.