It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.