You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.