Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

We moralize among ruins.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.