But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.