I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
There's nothing like going on with a thing.
Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.