The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.