William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Meditation is culture.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.